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As of this school year, over 11% of our students have been identified as requiring special education services, a significant portion of these due to emotional disturbances as well as learning ...
Fort Worth schools weren’t immune from that trend: The number of fights and student-on-student assaults in Fort Worth ISD more than tripled after the end of school shutdowns, climbing from 1,869 ...
California, Texas, and Florida have had the most incidents. [17] When controlled for population, Kentucky, Maryland, and Alabama have the highest rates of death in school shooting incidents. [3] 95% of school shootings have occurred at public schools. Approximately 73% were at high schools, 22% at middle schools, and 2% at elementary schools. [18]
Multiple school and community leaders from the Austin area gathered Friday to implore parents to help them combat a growing trend of threats made against campuses at a time when 13 students have ...
According to the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics, school violence is a serious problem. [1] [2] In 2007, the latest year for which comprehensive data were available, a nationwide survey, [3] conducted biennially by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and involving representative samples of U.S. high school students, found that 5.9% of students carried a weapon (e ...
An at-risk student is a term used in the United States to describe a student who requires temporary or ongoing intervention in order to succeed academically. [1] At risk students, sometimes referred to as at-risk youth or at-promise youth, [2] are also adolescents who are less likely to transition successfully into adulthood and achieve economic self-sufficiency. [3]
Youth lockups in Texas remain beset by sexual abuse, excessive use of pepper spray and other mistreatment including the prolonged isolation of children in their cells, the Justice Department said ...
It is common for African American youth to look to their families and friends for support; [9] however, some youth refrained from speaking to those close to them due to, “fearing that friends would laugh, joke, or tease them” [10] (Lindsey et al., 2006, p. 53), or that family members might “feel offended that they weren't able to help or that they were a second choice” [11] (Lindsey et ...